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Improve your Home, <^c. 



Vol. VII. 



From the Tennessee State Agriculturist. 

 Improve your Home, &c. 



Is it not the desire of all parents, that 

 their children should love home? if so, beau- 

 tify and adorn your homes, so as to make 

 them the most pleasant and loveabie place 

 to them. 



"The spring time is coming," the season 

 when dame nature decks herself in her gay- 

 est attire, and all things living, seem endued 

 with new life and vigor. Begin then with 

 nature ; she will lend you kind assistance ; 

 plant trees, fruits and flowers, tend, work 

 and water them, let your children assist 

 you, give each his portion in the labour of 

 love — who that ever planted a flower, and 

 watched it from the time of putting the un- 

 sightly root into mother earth, to the first 

 peeping forth of the green loaf, to the full 

 expansion of its beautiful bloom, but looks 

 back with pleasure on his sensations of de- 

 light and exultation, as he culled it for the 

 one he loved best! How his face glowed 

 and his heart beat, as he eagerly displayed 

 the prize ! Who can walk in the garden at 

 dewy eve or rosy morn, inhaling the delight- 

 ful perfume rising as incense to the Giver 

 of all good, from every bud and flower, and 

 not feel his own heart lifted up in praise for 

 so many blessings 1 The mind is naturally 

 led to harmonious reflections, by contemp- 

 lating nature in her most alluring forms. 

 Adorn your homes then with all her choice 

 productions, so that in after life, when your 

 children are surrounded with care and trou- 

 ble, home will rise up as a green spot in 

 memory's waste. Let your children share 

 your pursuits, it will make them love home 

 better, more affectionate toward each other, 

 and give them more confidence in you; they 

 will find there is indeed "no place like 

 home ;" instead of an irksomeness and re- 

 feerve in your presence, they will feel confi- 

 dence, and consider you their best friends 

 and companions. 



Are not the Swiss and Scotch attached to 

 their wild, rugged, and often barren country, 

 more than any other people? It is because 

 they bestow more labour on it, they toil in- 

 cessantly in tilling the earth, and feel more 

 affection for that spot. In most countries, 

 the great struggle is, to keep the homestead 

 from generation to generation, while we still 

 continue the "squatting" propensities of our 

 forefathers; our children, like a flock of birds, 

 leave us as soon as fledged — not but I would 

 have them independent, have them so by all 

 means, and to have them so, I would do 

 away the great love of speculation, the 

 making haste to be rich, the effects of which 

 60 many are sinking under at this very time: 



and make our boys quiet, sober and intelli- 

 gent men, our girls well informed, cheerful, 

 healthy, amiable and affectionate. If you 

 wish your boy to be a good son, good bro- 

 ther, good husband and good man, make 

 him love home, it will also deliver him from 

 the manifold temptations that beset a young 

 man's path — he will, by sharing his mother's 

 and sister's pursuits, acquire a greater inte- 

 rest in them, and have a more affectionate 

 regard and greater sympathy with them ; it 

 will rub off the rough points of his charac- 

 ter, refine and polish him, strengthen and 

 exalt the mind of the sister, add ease and 

 grace to their deportment with the rougher 

 sex. By making home agreeable, you height- 

 en the affection of your children for your- 

 selves, and prevent their seeking enjoyment 

 and amusement elsewhere — you will have 

 them more under your parental eye, and 

 thus be able to check many an embryo fault 

 kindly and gently, which, if left unre- 

 strained, would wring many a tear of an- 

 guish from your hearts. Has not the Father 

 of all made this universal garden beautiful 

 and lovely in the extreme 1 Is it not en- 

 riched with all that is pleasant to the eye 

 and grateful to the taste ; even every thing 

 that the heart of man can desire, to make 

 this, our temporary home, a paradise ; and 

 shall we not follow such a glorious example, 

 and make the transient home of our children 

 pleasant and sweet. By adorning and mak- 

 ing them pleasant within and beautiful with- 

 out, they will in truth say, "there is no place 

 like home." Aunt Charity. 



Franklin, Jan. 1843. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Salt for Grub Worms. — A correspond- 

 ent of the New Genesee Farmer says, that 

 after finding- the grub worm was cutting off 

 his corn and cabbages at a sad rate, he first 

 applied ashes, then soot, and then Scotch 

 snuff' to the hill, hoping to destroy or drive 

 away the worm, but it was all to no purpose. 

 Afterwards, seeing it stated that sail was 

 very disagreeable to the grub, he applied 

 about two table spoonfuls to each hill of 

 corn or cabbage, placing it so as not to 

 touch the plant. The worms left them im- 

 mediately. 



Another says, that by putting about "a 

 pinch" of salt to each plant, two or three 

 times, the worm ceased his depredations. 

 He also mentions a neighbour, who watered 

 his cabbages daily with water from a salt 

 pork barrel, and was not troubled; but as 

 soon as he discontinued the practice, his 

 plants were attacked, equally with his 

 neighbours. L. 



